We’ve been following this Ukrainian shooter since the first footage appeared a couple of years ago. Metro 2033 appears to be what THQ did after the split with GSC, and it has the same dark-future apocalypse vibes as Stalker. This time it’s set in a Moscow ravaged by monsters, with the survivors of the apocalypse hiding in the Russian capital’s epic metro system. It’s got a strong “Russian Fallout” whiff to it, which echoes what a 1c boss said to me last year about their love of the game. THQ’s blurb reads: “You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.” Anyway, go take a look, this is very promising.
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That’s one of the best damn game trailers I’ve ever seen. Understated. A good script read well. The crowd scene with the guitar. Wow.
I’ve never been interested in this genre (haven’t played Fallout or STALKER), but that trailer really made me want to play this game. I almost wouldn’t mind unskippable cutscenes with that actor voicing the main character.
I completely read that comment as sarcastic at first.
And then I watched the trailer.
:O
From what videos and screens are currently available, it looks to be very similar to STALKER in terms of atmosphere, but in terms of gameplay it seems like it will be a more straight FPS game.
Interesting. Well, I tend to prefer a STALKERey open-world shooter type of game, but every now and then it’s nice to have a straight-up FPS. I’ve been so impressed with what’s coming out of Eastern Europe these days that I’ll buy the thing just to support them.
For those who dont know, setting of this game is based on eponymous russian fantastic book, about ppl living in Moscow metro after nuclear war (judging by description of surface, tho it was more biological war)
Yikes, very much STALKER/Fallout-vibes – in a good way though! I expected some corny russian developer to do the voce acting, but I was pleasantly suprised. Easily one of the better trailers ive seen in a while. Will keep my eye on this one.
Wow, that looks really interesting! It seems to have that bleak-russian-gamey-atmosphere nailed.
Oops. Make that bleak-UKRANIAN-gamey-atmosphere. :S
Nice and understated trailer… I like what I see. And its not just poxy console either.
Not really good. It’s stable, sidequests are good, but the main story is rubbish (I mean it’s worst in series) and high textures are available only in 64-bit OS. And they require 3 gig of ram to play comfortably. Presentation is awful, a lot of text and nothing of it goes in your notes, except PDA history you need to scroll through.
shit, that was a reply to Stalker Call of Pripyat question
very cinematic
Instead of brown+grey now we get to look at blue+grey!
Yessss
I know I’m going to sound like ‘that guy,’ but I was really psyched until I saw PC/360 release. I wish it didn’t, but it always makes me narrow my eyes slightly, and flat-out DOUBT the game when I see it on consoles. I immediately imagine terrible AI due to in-order-processing.
I enjoyed Fallout 3 which was multiplatform, but so many games that ARE on PC and console end up being awful for me.
It’s something we have to judge game by game.
That’s true, it’s just that NUMBERS wise I think ‘doubt’ is in the right mind-set. Buggy though stalker may be, imagine if it had been on the 360 as well, or (originally) Deus Ex, etc. It just seems that when the two are combined they both get the worst of eachother.
I can’t work out if 4A Games are related to 1C? If it’s 1C I don’t think we need to worry about consolitis.
Yeah I’m not sure if they’re related to eachother much. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that 4A is the console-knowing part of 1c.
Man, i really like that voiceover. I hope they keep that accent for everyone russian in the game.
Find: Vault
Replace: Metro Station
Done before lunch!
Would it be possible to put the “Page X of Y” above the comments?
Maybe in addition to it being at the bottom.
Oh my. I’ll be watching this. Very closely. Maybe it will be STALKER-y, maybe not,. The trailer does not really have any indication. RPG elements would be nice.
**Now GSC can you please release CoP so I can play through it first? Not that I am complaining but I have been playing SoC with OL for ages now and want some new areas.**
I also liked the 18 rating. Means that there is a good chance to get that true atmospheric feel that only the Eastern Slavs can make… (Dostoevsky anyone?)
(I was going to type of All the Russias, but I dunno if the Ukrainians would like that…)
Why does everyone think this is a Russian game
I have to say, more than the trailer I was impressed with the THQ embedded video player. Looks nice, and runs even better than embedded Youtube on this shitbox I’m currently browsing the internet on (Had to use a Firefox plugin to download the L4D2 leaked trailer in order to view it smoothly).
There is no such thing like UKRAINIAN game. All these games are released by russian publishers and they have RUSSIAN atmosphere. Also ukrainians are same russians only in another country.
By that logic wouldn’t all Ubisoft games be French? Generally it’s the nationality of the developers that matters, not the publisher.
Read carefully. Ukrainians = Russians. Only ukrainian language is a dialect of russian.
Read carefully. Ukrainians = Russians. Even ukrainian language is just a dialect of russian.
I saw the nationalist silliness, I just chose to ignore it.
Nationalists are orange Washington puppets eulogizing Nazi criminals. I just struggle for justice.
You are one creepy dude. The Ukraine is obviously part of the Commonwealth along with Poland and Lithuania anyway.
Ukrainian are not the same thing as Russians. Ukrainian is not a dialect of Russian. Stop the nationalist BS. It’s two separate countries. Soviet been has been gone for almost 20 years!
PeKa, my russian friends would agree with you. Oddly enough, my ukranian friends would very much DISAGREE with you. And seeing as they live in their own country, I tend to think they are correct.
Stop swallowing Putin’s nationalistic ideas and please think for yourself for a moment, tovarish.
And I too definitely loved that corridor scene with all the poeple. Nice to see polycount being used for crowd scenes instead of having two or thee NPC’s in 100.000 poly’s each.
“Country x is really part of country y! X-ians are really Y-ese!”
Must…not…invoke…Godwin’s Law…
THIS.
THIS IS WHAT FALLOUT 3 SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
Interesting bu there are still a hundred ways they can screw their good concept.
Also I didn’t see any gameplay in the trailer so I refuse to get excited about that one yet.
p.s. sorry for the negativism but GSC have already shown me how you can make pretty mediocre sequel/prequel even after you’ve worked so many years over something damn good and promising (cause well it could have been waaaay better) like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and you should have known what is missing and what would make it nearly perfect…
So I just can’t get my hopes high for an unknown developer from the same region that has made a nice trailer and concepts but no game so far and it all looks a liiiitle bit like Stalker so far…
I hope 4A Games prove me wrong though.
>Ukrainian is not a dialect of Russian.
Prove me wrong. I know what i’m saying.
Ukrainian language is descended from Kievian Rus, which would not make it a Russian dialect, simply a related East Slavic language.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/613050/Ukrainian-language
In fact, modern ukrainian language is pretty artificial. Most of ukrainian citizen even don’t know that well. Instead of it they use so called “surzhik” – kind of russian dialect. I am unbiassed cause my mother is ukrainian and i were in Ukraine lot of times.
Guys, a language is nothing but a dialect with an army and a navy. And Russian and Ukrainian devs have a lot in common. Especially in the way they differ from American or west European devs.
So. . . how about the apocalypse (say what you like, Beelzebub made the trains run on time)?
Will rant for food.
I feel that it might be a bit too similar to Fallout…
Color me impressed. Had never heard of this before but I’m quite looking forward to it now.
“Not really good. It’s stable, sidequests are good, but the main story is rubbish (I mean it’s worst in series) and high textures are available only in 64-bit OS. And they require 3 gig of ram to play comfortably. Presentation is awful, a lot of text and nothing of it goes in your notes, except PDA history you need to scroll through.
shit, that was a reply to Stalker Call of Pripyat question”
Woah you scared me.
Poland (of Witcher fame) is actually a part of Central Europe. But yeah, I know what you mean.
Reply-system-is-broken-SMASH!
This might be good i don’t kno.
I’ve played stalker and fallout (3).
And this looks very similar. (maybe too much)
I will check out the ratings of this before i buy it